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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



l^a Manda Park, Cal., field meeting at the apiary of F. M. Stone. 



hundred and one other very useful articles 

 which make up a beekeeper's world? 



These articles aie to the beekeeper of the 

 present day what tools are to a carpenter. 

 But in Quinby's day no articles to further 

 the work of the bee were to be had. This 

 made it all the harder for him, a lad of 

 nineteen, to make a success of his chosen 

 profession. 



Quinby (unlike many inventors) was not 

 a rich man. He was trying to improve 

 conditions and methods then in voaiie in 

 regard to the man- 

 agement of bees. 

 When he invented 

 some article which he 

 thought of value to 

 beekeepers, he gave 

 it directly to them, 

 and did not rush off 

 at once to patent it. 

 Some may call this 

 poor management on 

 his part, and doubt- 

 less he would liave 

 been a richer man 

 had he patented some 

 of his inventions. 

 But, nevertheless, if 

 Quinby had been as 



narrow-minded as some people of his time 

 we should be without many things to-day 

 which have helped further the beekeeper's 

 cause. 



I have a copy of " Quinby's Beekeeping " 

 which was published in 1866, and find many 

 articles in it which are worth reading in 

 1915. This book was publisliod nearly half 

 a century ago, and since that time beekeep- 

 ing has been nearly revolutionized. Even 

 so, when I have the time, I read the book 

 through, and hardly a year passes but that 



F. M. Stone's apiary, La Manda Park. Cal. Geese keep the grass down. 



